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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel-iommu.rst b/Documentation/x86/intel-iommu.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 099f13d51d5f..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/x86/intel-iommu.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,115 +0,0 @@ -=================== -Linux IOMMU Support -=================== - -The architecture spec can be obtained from the below location. - -http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-specifications/vt-directed-io-spec.pdf - -This guide gives a quick cheat sheet for some basic understanding. - -Some Keywords - -- DMAR - DMA remapping -- DRHD - DMA Remapping Hardware Unit Definition -- RMRR - Reserved memory Region Reporting Structure -- ZLR - Zero length reads from PCI devices -- IOVA - IO Virtual address. - -Basic stuff ------------ - -ACPI enumerates and lists the different DMA engines in the platform, and -device scope relationships between PCI devices and which DMA engine controls -them. - -What is RMRR? -------------- - -There are some devices the BIOS controls, for e.g USB devices to perform -PS2 emulation. The regions of memory used for these devices are marked -reserved in the e820 map. When we turn on DMA translation, DMA to those -regions will fail. Hence BIOS uses RMRR to specify these regions along with -devices that need to access these regions. OS is expected to setup -unity mappings for these regions for these devices to access these regions. - -How is IOVA generated? ----------------------- - -Well behaved drivers call pci_map_*() calls before sending command to device -that needs to perform DMA. Once DMA is completed and mapping is no longer -required, device performs a pci_unmap_*() calls to unmap the region. - -The Intel IOMMU driver allocates a virtual address per domain. Each PCIE -device has its own domain (hence protection). Devices under p2p bridges -share the virtual address with all devices under the p2p bridge due to -transaction id aliasing for p2p bridges. - -IOVA generation is pretty generic. We used the same technique as vmalloc() -but these are not global address spaces, but separate for each domain. -Different DMA engines may support different number of domains. - -We also allocate guard pages with each mapping, so we can attempt to catch -any overflow that might happen. - - -Graphics Problems? ------------------- -If you encounter issues with graphics devices, you can try adding -option intel_iommu=igfx_off to turn off the integrated graphics engine. -If this fixes anything, please ensure you file a bug reporting the problem. - -Some exceptions to IOVA ------------------------ -Interrupt ranges are not address translated, (0xfee00000 - 0xfeefffff). -The same is true for peer to peer transactions. Hence we reserve the -address from PCI MMIO ranges so they are not allocated for IOVA addresses. - - -Fault reporting ---------------- -When errors are reported, the DMA engine signals via an interrupt. The fault -reason and device that caused it with fault reason is printed on console. - -See below for sample. - - -Boot Message Sample -------------------- - -Something like this gets printed indicating presence of DMAR tables -in ACPI. - -ACPI: DMAR (v001 A M I OEMDMAR 0x00000001 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000007f5b5ef0 - -When DMAR is being processed and initialized by ACPI, prints DMAR locations -and any RMRR's processed:: - - ACPI DMAR:Host address width 36 - ACPI DMAR:DRHD (flags: 0x00000000)base: 0x00000000fed90000 - ACPI DMAR:DRHD (flags: 0x00000000)base: 0x00000000fed91000 - ACPI DMAR:DRHD (flags: 0x00000001)base: 0x00000000fed93000 - ACPI DMAR:RMRR base: 0x00000000000ed000 end: 0x00000000000effff - ACPI DMAR:RMRR base: 0x000000007f600000 end: 0x000000007fffffff - -When DMAR is enabled for use, you will notice.. - -PCI-DMA: Using DMAR IOMMU -------------------------- - -Fault reporting -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - -:: - - DMAR:[DMA Write] Request device [00:02.0] fault addr 6df084000 - DMAR:[fault reason 05] PTE Write access is not set - DMAR:[DMA Write] Request device [00:02.0] fault addr 6df084000 - DMAR:[fault reason 05] PTE Write access is not set - -TBD ----- - -- For compatibility testing, could use unity map domain for all devices, just - provide a 1-1 for all useful memory under a single domain for all devices. -- API for paravirt ops for abstracting functionality for VMM folks. |